The Sun. — London, England, 1808-08-20 00:00:00

P FROM TRIE.S:I3.;ANISII.PAPEIiS. Ovitno, AUGUST 4.—The soldiers of Asturias, though novices in the art of war, are extygmeit_ eager to fight, and to come in conta& with the in- Nuncibles of Marengo, Austerlitz, and Jena. The signal valour with whic i a few of them, colle6ted in the Pola de Gerdon, have/put to flight two parties of French dragoons, has deserved the recommendation of Signor VALESTEROS, through his Excellency the Uaptain-General, to the Supreme Junta. That Su preme Tribunal has of course taken measures to re ward those valiant warriors according to the merit of each individually, anti to publish in the Gazette the following dispatch : COI'-I OP THE OFFICIAL LETTER OF SIGNOi: VALESTE- ROS S OF THE DATE OF JULY 3 I , TO THE MOST EX CELLENT SIGNOR DON VINCENT MARIA ACCORD°. MOST EXCELLENT LORD—I communicate to Your Excellency, as I had offered to 'make known to YOU, the particulars of what has occurred to me in tht Pola de Gerdon, between the Enernrr2nd a de- tachment under the command of the SublLigiirenant of the Royal Corps of Artillery, DON MATTHIAS CARRASCON, consisting of a Serjeant, a Corporal, and fourteen volunteers of Asturias, in the evening of the 26th current. The tenor of my letter will be conformable to the official communication made to me to the following effeet The party being at dinner in the street, eight French dragoons entered the place, without the sen tinel having been able to give notice of their op . proach, he having advanced too far on account of the citcumstance of the Enemy having been at a distance of nine leagues on the preceding - day. Thos the dragoons were at once upon the little troop sword in - hand. There is no doubt that they were surprised, but the confusion lasted but a moment ; starting tip immediately on, CARRASCON'S crying to want they made one discharge, and then chargedla!witli the bayonet; upon which the Enemy fell laiek and re tired precipitately, our men pursuing them as far as' Robla, when they received a reinforcement of fresh cavalry, but our brave fellows persevered_i n. their attack till they drove the Enemy from the' Aickets of the mountains, having one killed and four wound . ed. We had two slightly woundeil. In this adlion, though small in amount, ads of valotir have been performed deserving of your Excellency's highest -conlleration. There is no.. doubt, that .stie brave fellows concerned will acquit themselves in the same brilliant manner on occasions of greater importance. I recommend, therefore, that the Supreme, Junta should bestow appropriate rewards on each indivi dual, and publish their namesin the Gazette, tk give etre4 to so good,an example. FERROL, JULY 28.—8 y authentic letters: from England, received at Corunna on the 2 4 ,. ated the sth of th e p cesent M ont h, we lear4,-,tl,,:at it! 'that., kingdom a very extensive subscription 1i5.4,be0 Set on foot, in favour of the widows and orphriniAtaty brave cumpanions who die in the holy vor, in which we are engaged. 0 ! 'generous Englakid ! Our hearts, full of gratitude, inspire our lips with endless :songs in your honour and praise. Desolate widows, deserted. orphans, 'comfort yourselves. If a cruel death has deprived you of your dear husbands and beloved fathers, these virtuous Wanders hgld out to you a sticcouring hand. If deprived of your sweet supports, you dread the wretchedness c i om which their hands proteded you the gold collected by '.teneficence - conies to comfort your distresses. If our treacherous friends sack our towns, and kill our brothers, thoSe who .were for a time compelled to be 'our Enemies, hasten to cure our wounds. Spaniards, let us all swear eternal friendship and allieice 'with 'r-ingland, an alliance founded in justice, ggOerosity, and gratitade. Eternal glory and prais ' ebe to the noble Patriots who die in so juSt a cause. Eternal glory and praise to England, which i 0 worthily sustains that cause. To conquer or die s be that our device. Marshal BESSIERES intended to have cut off the `communication between the provinces of Castile and Asturias, and with that view designed to occupy Toro as well as Zamora. But being informed of the transaaions in Andalusia, and recalled by expresses 'from his Court, he fell back, evacuated Leon, and inarched, as report says, towards Madrid. The Junta of Asturias, upon a representation of the city of Oviedo, and a strong statement by the yrocurator General, came to a Resolution, in its sit ting of Auguseni police, t 2, to abolish the existing syst of as being contrary to civil liberty, to the laws of the ki ng d om, of the principality. and to the authority of the justices . • ' A Vessel, the Hopewell, Captain SHEtilt-tian, has. arrived in the Downs from Cadiz, and tirotteit let ters thence to the Ist instant. The rejoicings' for the viaory over Du PONT had cOntinued•for five suc cessive days. It. appears that the 'Junta of Seville had declare :I its intention to assemble the Cortes of the Spanish Nation.- The several towns of Anda luAta, and of the o th er provinces, are to send each a IV 'tuber, as its Representative, to this General Akssemt?ly. Biy the letters received by this convey, 4 4ce, we learn, that long : previous . to JOSEY,Ci buo le; Arum's quitting Madrid, all the Officers of the Regiment Grenaderos del Egado, had found means to escape, and one only had been taken in his flight, and shot on , his being brought back to Ma drid. His name was _MELciffox ALVAREZ. By. a Vessel - arrived from Oporto, we • learn AllittnGene ral CASTANOS had detached :0,000 of ais , .troops to Estremadura, where they were to joitied by 15,000 men of that province, for the Dt'pose of as 'fisting in the liberation of Portugal from4llo,Ft - ench yokt". A letter received at Falmouth, from an Officer of his Majesty's Ship Plantagenet, dated off the Tagus,. 3d inst. states, that General WELLESLEY and Gene ral SP E NCER were in full march for Lisbon, and that our squadron were to attack the Forts from the water S ide, at the same time the.troops attacked on shore; the attack was expeeted to%be made in a day or two after the letter was written.—lt states, that nine Russian Ships of the Line, two Portuguese. under ,French colours, with a great number of Danish Ves sels, and two Danish East Indiamen,, were in the 'Ta g us, 6 which'our . tars hoped shortly to have posses sion of. If JosErti BUONAPARTE had notstolen the C7;01472 PrOPer ty on his late Royal visit to I‘Aa'crrid, and Should be intercepted on his return, he might have been detained as a hostage, but he mier,now be pro perly punished as a thief: • 'SKETCH OF S LED TO THE CHANGE: OF DI Iti SPAIN. [FR.OI4 THE TR ENCH.] . . . The folloWing article.has been very inclu§triongly circulated by the French through Oat .Spain, in the shape of a Pamphlet, but it may be considered as a land of Apologetical Alanifotoiissned by Bt;ON.A PARTE, to reconcile the people of Spain to the change which helms endeavoured to effe& in their dynasty. We much doubt whether at any time the Spaniards would have been inclined. to give Much credit to his professions of regard for them, but after the massacre at Madrid, in May last, after the pilfering expedi tion of JosEPH to that capital, and•the dreadful atro cities committed by the French at Cordova, Rio Seco, and in other parts of Spain, he will, we are convinced, fail as completely in , his attempts to de ceive the inhabitants of that Kingdom by his pro mises, as he has hitherto done,tointimidate them by his arms. , . • • " The events which have taken . place in Spain during the last two months, Jiave led to such j•na portant changes in the condition of that monarchy, that it is necessary to 'present a faithful relation. of them, in order to shew : the dangets with which the kingdom );vas threatened, and the salutary measures which haVe preserved it from ruin. Ou the tgth of . .. March; 1808, a Monarch, 60 years of age, was compelled to abdicate his throne,,ia the midst of a popular.insurrthion, in order to save the lives of hintself.and , consort. Hil friends were persecuted, .his first Minister delivered over to the fury of the seditious, and the Prince, his. son, occu pied a throne which could not, be vacated without the free and. repeated . -manifestation of the Sovereign's will. —[Query, What freedoM was there in his 're signationof it to Buonaparte " .Endeavours had long been made to raise a tu mult. The discovery made in the Month of 0610- ber, of arrenterprize against the throne, had not in timidated the conspirators : they remarked, . that the hatred and envy of the Prince of Peace continued to increase, :and that the Royal authority was no "longer able to enforce its own orders, and guide the public opinion. Bodies of Spanish troops, put in motion in every part, without concert. and with out apparent obje4t, ceased to protea the coasts. The people were alarmed ; a change of system was talked of; divisions prevailed- around the throne' and the Royal Family ; S and the object of these op posite pr e tensions was, to contend -by anticipation for the 'spoils of the Royal authority. A, French army was then employed. in the Expedition of Por tugal ; and other corps, destined to act in concert With it and maintain the comniunication. with France, were in Spab:• " The seditious, who feared that order and public safety might be restored, hastened to execute their projea. They caused alartuing reports to be-circu lated: they asserted, that the Royal Family were about to set out from Ari.r.ues tor Seville ; that their treasures and troops had preceded them, and that their flight was to be the, signal for civil war.. The populace was inflamed by promises aria intoxicating liquors. They arose on the 18th of March, ,at Aran juez. The King was abandoned by a part of his fa mily, and the rebels were in his palace. This day af forded memorable instances of reverse of fortune and ingratitude; the greater part of the body-guard, whom the. Prince of Peace had long commanded, en tered his Palace, and joined in the pillage with the populace. On the next day, this Prince, who lay hid amid the ruins of his house, was delivered up by one of his own body-guard, of whom he implored a drop of water, after remaining 36 hours without food, and the man was covered with insults and v a unds, before whose feet his assailants had lain prostrate. His degradation was less an at of personal revenge _than an attempt to degrade. the authority of the King. The presence of the Monarch could not save the favourite from blows and insult, and himself was constrained to abdicate, in order to spare the insur gents greater crimes. This insurrthion spread to Ma drid, and the Prince of Asturias, mistaking the cry of a mob for popular favour, thought he might clothe . himself in the spoils which had been torn from.h is august father. But, at the very moment when he demanded allegiance from the Subjetis of Charles IV. that un fortunate MOnarch, a prisoner at Aranjuez, Cud ex pthing to be sent an exile to Badajoz, protested against the abdication, and solicited aid from the Emperor of the French, in whtise hands he placed his fate and that of the Queen and the Prince of the Peace. The Royal and paternal authority is sacred. Respe& for Kings is the first safeguard for the tran quillity of nations. The Emperor saw, in the ex altation of the Prince of Asturias, nothing but a source of calamities to Spain, and an incitement to' other insurrections. He felt for the misfortunes of Charles IV. Ought Spain to imitate Turkey in the .deposition of her Monarchs? or imitate the French revolution ? What safety could Sovereigns enjoy, if a right to dethrone them existed whenever their own family were weary of t heir government ? Nevertheless", the Emperor was desirous to examine more cldsely the events which had taken place, and their causes. He repaired to Bayonne, where the Deputations from the Kingdom arrived. The Infante Don Carlos was already there. The Prince of Asturias left Ma drid on the Loth. of April, and went to Bayonne, leaving the Government OF the Kingdom and the Presidency of the Supreme Junta in the hands of Don Antonio, brother of King Charles, who had hitherto live& apart from public affairs. " Charles IV. having transmitted a new protesta 7 tion to Don Antonio against his compulsory abdica tion,repaired with the Queen to Bayonne. He arrived on the 3oth of April, and was received with cor diality by the Emperor. He imparted to him his misfortunes, the greatest of which was that he had to accuse a son. " The Prince of the Peace was already arrived ; all parties were present ; the truth would now ap pear. The Emperor waited for this, in order to fix his opinion. He had previously , written to the Prince of Asturias, that he would, without difficulty, admit of the abdication of King Charles, should it .appear that it had been voluntary ; but he was con vinced, from his interviews with the King, the Princes, the Nobles who were attached to the cala mities of the - father, or the hopes of his successor, of the violence and insult committed upon King Charles. This Monarch, still cloathed with paler tul authority, addressed bitter complaints to his.son, FEMALE ,SIVIND LER, made him return to his ditty, and induced !dna filially to renounce a crown, Al Secured by usurpa tion, and which mild only bring calamities of lons.- 0 i The .annals of Neweate and Kilmainfiani gaol's dura'ion tapers the kingdom. r cannot boast of an initince of female swindling irs These-. latter fears were,• in faa, too well I! any degree equal to the fotioeving many years founded : the epheaseral e autliori!), - of the Prince of ago a Captain Wesoti,' (the assuaned name of the • V laid served only to rouse thelactions, and ce l e b sate d hereine) accompanied by a ger P vant, dress spread discontent In s the provinces,' The people of ed in rich livery, made his debut early in summer Madrid were in is state of agitat ion. the Prince, even 'at Ainabrie e a place famous in Peiehshire for grouse before his departure, could'no longer govern those to Shooting S and li - oat-fishing. During. the simmer whom he owed •his elevation. Quarrels frequently, months ehiabeentifully romantic place is much ire- arose between the inhabitants and the French quented . by fashionable parties. There is only one soldiers: to decry the ancient Government, con- i inn' in the village ; consequently there is frequently a tiscatis the goods of the Prince of Peace, to seek great 'scarcity' of beds- 'a and to obviate the diflicul:- for' . popuhrity by defeating ahnses—thiewas called s ties arising from this circumstance as much; a pose governing; and when the Prince of Asturias had sibfee sometimes four Gentlemen are oblieed, to pc quittbAadt id,'And absence had weakened his aut hos copy One bed, and as many Ladies s repose themselves riry, the spirit of sedition displayed itself with . more in another. Being youhg, and of engaging man audacity. The 'intriguers combined with the neigh- ners, the landlady of the inn propoaed to Captain bouring prov ; the number of strangers increased Watson to share the bed of her two sons, one a in, Madrid, and only the wise measures taken by the whom was a Student in divinity, and the other a Grand Duke of Berg, and tile diteipline of the troops student in physic. The Captain readily acceded he commanded, could prolong the durtion of the jto the proposal. In horsemanship, in angling, in puplic tranquillity against the efforts ofe vile populace a shooting, in - jumping, in,walking; in singing, and in hired by conspirators. But the spirit of sedition dancing, the accomplished Watson excelled ; but he prevailed. Indulgence and goodness were imputed : never could be prevailed upon to, shew dexterity in to weakness. A - fresh insurrection, prepared several i swimming. The union of so many accomplish days before by the publication of incendiary writings, meets soon procure Sto the owner the highest ad burst ont on the 2d of May. The signal was the de- miration. His fame spread itself ever the High partuee of the Queen of Etruria and the Infante lands of Pettlishire ;eandi there was not a ball within .1/An Frannisco, who were resolved. to seek in Bayonne t the :distance of thirty miles, at which his company a shelter from pespolar insult. Some French O[h was not considered a great accession, His 'credit ners,whoevere (quit alone, were first attacked. The kept pace With the adthiratiMi in which he was insurrection spited and became general, but troops held. iiankers, innkeepers ; and Country Gentle repaitad wherever bodies of the people were.assetn- Men- vied - with each other in proffering their purses; bled, and dispersed the insurgem.s. One party 1 and they felt themselves obliged when thehandsome seized 'the arsenal—others 'fated from the windows Watsondeigned toaccept of a trifle. •By sismeiseatis of the houses. They were IStirstiad every where, and o r ;Aber his drafts • tadm England did not cvtne to all feued Withal - Ins in their hands perished. The hand by - the end - of 'llse season, caging ss Lien h e Co pe sedition belinegeddo the lowest class of the people. 'traded debts to the amount of 3001. no small sum i‘ 'The 'good condnal of the Spanish troops; and -f in that epuetrye s Such, however, was the confi of the first Authorities of the kingdoth, did not pass = dence of the landlady in his honour, that she ad unnotieed. The SePrense Anna, flan Council of : varied - him 'idol. to - carry him to Liverpool, where Castile, the Tribunals, the Captain-General, re- he intendedie pass - the winter with one of his guar paired eo the most populseas :trill dangerous quarters, dians,' he himself . being a. ward ofenaucery, of pro in order to brhig . hack thole who had' ttrayed from digious expectations. Eisler* net summer Watson their duty. • again 'appeared et Arnabrie, 'to 'the greet joy of the The 2d of May was the last day of anarchy in hostess of the inn; of her sons, and of'all the neigta- Spain.• The Infante Don Antonio still presided in bourhOod: This season passed like Elie •former, with : - the Supreme Junta; but after the departure of that out-any marked incident ; e and notwithstanding that Prince, who repaired to Bayonna, the Juuta, ill he never paid • a single soar, hie credit sustained'no older to acquire more strength and authority, con- 'diminution. After having, for the present, satisfied fcrred the Presidentship on the Grand Dukeof Berg, few less patient creditors 'with fair pro Mises - and on the very day when King Charles nominated that plaueible excuses, the charming Watson bid adieu Piince Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom. ito Ainabrie for-another half year. The third sum ". This co-operation of tneasure's and testimonies • mer arrived,. es _aid also the gay son of Mars at of confidence were a new pleage of the maintC- Ansabrie in an elegant style e all were glad to see nance of public order. The Supreme Junta, and the i him, not so much for the honour of his company !loyal Council of Castile, the first authorities of the as fisr the hopes of receiving the payment of their Kingdom, thanked King Charles for the nomina- • bills. Bankers,. with. great unpolieenesse became tion of his Lieutenant-General, and testified their clamorous, innkeepers impatient, and country cre affenlion, their respect, and their adherence to his divers troublesome; and the 'hostess had the assni will. They congratulated themselves on again i ance to tell him, that - he would not - be permitted to Obeying his orders; they manifested to the Emperor sleep this 'Summer with her two sons, who were at their gratitude and confidence. Seeing 'harmony re- least as good as he was. These little buffetings our stored between the Prince of Asturias and his august hero bore with. laughing, ease, and indifference— Father, the Spaniards could no longer, hesitate in and all these storms subsided on a word into calm their fidelity. They saw in this Prince only the son I ness. Having received an invitation to a great ball; of their and the authority was restored to its: .which was held at Perth, .Wateon made a shift t o ;steal "hands. .raise the wind, and accordingly attended. He dis " But this authority had suffered too much from ► tinguished himself as the best dancer on this OCCa-• the attacks it had endured. When King Charles ston, and captivated the hearts of many a longing heard of the second instarealion of the ad of latay, maid. Whilst matters were. in this state, an ma tte s aid to his son, " See the deplorable conse- i dent °centred which put an end to this gay scene of quences of 'the Councils that have misled you, and j delusion.—As Watson was walking, the day after the assistance which is to be expected from the mul- j the ball, with two Gentlemen, in the High-street, a titudea' The father and son were' equally afilitted Physician of emieence e • accompanied by another at the progress which anarchy had made since the Gentleman, following ;it a little distance, said to bit insurrection at Araisjuez, when it obtained such de- • " that person," pointing to Captain Watson, plorable success . against the King. To what new "it not a man, but a woman." This was enough. miseries would not the people of Spain be reserved, The hint got wing, : and in less than an hour after no if in so short an interval they had witnessed such Captain Watson was to be seen. .The scared bird licentiousness and horrors, the degradation of the took wing, and fled in her own natural feathers, Royal authority,, and the standard of civil war raised leaving her creditors, her admirers & and her lovers in by the populace of the Capital ? "this county, to bewail their losses ;and their own " Oppressed by infirmities and sorrow, the King credulity. Report adds, that after playing the same saw, that to restore Spain a more, powerful artn.was - game in the county of Inverness next summer, un necessary.. His sole concern now was, to secure the der the name of Dodsworth, with some little .suc interests of the Spanish Monarchy, its Religion, Inde- cess, she was - apprehended, tried, and convieted at pendence, and the Integrity of its ProvinneS. Charles the Circuit. Court for that county. She was sen- INZ . . had governed his Subjects with equity. He to iced to seven, years transportation ; but -this sen had, under difficult circemstances, maintained the tepee was never carried into execution. What is dignity of his Crown, tranquillity in the interior, and become of this wenderfuleharaaer is unknown. the safety of his kingdom ; but when he perceived that his diminished authority and power were 'no longer adequate to so great a labour, and that he could still less. intrust it to the Prince of Asturias, who, during a tumultuous Government 'of , lOrty days; commencing and ending in a revolt, had brought the Kingdom on the brink of ruin ; it was t h e n that this Monarch resolved to retire with his family into France, and wishing to give his subjects a last proof of his paternal affection, he renounced, on the sth of May, his Crown and his Rights in favour of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and notified his ad of renunciation to the/Supreme Council of Castile, on the sth. - 4 s; This Prince of Asturias', informed of the clan tress which surrounded the Kingdom, followed the example Of the King his father. On the loth of May he solemaly ceded all his rights to the Throne. A second aCt of renunciatien, addressed on the 12th to the Supreme Junta, by this Prince and the Infantes Don Carlos and Don Antonio, re leases the Spaniards from all their obligations to wards them, exhorts them to he ill repose, and await their felicity from the benevolent disposition and power of the Emperor. " These hopes will be fulfilled. ' The Emperor is full of esteem for the noble charaeleaof the Spanish Natiob. He desires the felicity and glory of so beautiful a Kingdom. No Province shall be dis membered.' The Monarchy shall be independent ; the tenets of its religion, and the splendour of its throne, shall be maintained. " The Dynasty which reigned in Spain is about to be replaced by a new Dynasty,. and Spain hails these great changes with confidence. She reads her future destiny in the prosperity to which France has risen under the reign of the ~.i- l eperor. Tran quillity is assured in the Capital; and in the Pro vinces the inhabitants and the French troops live in friendship. ' • " All the public Bodies, both Civil and Military, have presented themselves to the Lieutenent-General of the KingdoM ; and the arrival of the new Sove reign, whom the - Emperor has destined'for it, is expected with impatienees" AccOnnts have bean received from the West In. dies, dated Barbadoes, June ' 3 ; and, we are sorry to add that they contain by no means the same pleasant intelligence as the former. The sickly season was setting' in very!early itt ill the Islands, and in mist of them the troop had_begun to suffer, and several offi cers had died. The 4th battalion of the 69th regithent had arrix ed from the Cape of Good Hope ; the 13th regi ment was expeaed from America ; the, York Ran gers from England. The inhabitants in the different Islands were uneasy about the black troops. The new Commander in Chief, Lieutenant-Ge neral BECKW ITH, had commenced very auspiciously, and was likely to he extremely popular; the ge neral wish was, that he might not be superseded from home. • The 25th regiment continued very healthy at St. Kitt's The regularity of the men, and the system of discipline kept upAot this fine old regiment, were Likely . to ensure its continuing healthy. Lietit.-Colonel BOWYER, the Deputy Adjutant- General, and nephew'of 'General BOWYER, died at Barbadoes, as did Major M'DONNELL, of the Scotch Royals. The last recruits sent out had unluckily ar rived i►n the unhealthy season, and just' when the yellow fever was commencing its ravages. It were much to be wished that among the seve ral improvements going forward in Westminster, some substantial ,and decorative buildings were de signed and erected for our Courts of Law. A Square, upon the principle of Somerset-place, would be the . best adapted for such a purpose, where each of the four Courts might form a central edifice on each • side, and the adjoining parts be allotted as chambers for the Judges, and as offices appertaining to the t-e -spe6tive Courts. The scite might very well be fottbd between Somerset-place and the Temple, Cu th e side of the river. SURREY AsStis.Yesterday at Guildford, a true Bill was found against Tm: Pilkingtoz, for the mur der of Morpttigue Hyades, in the Borough, and tla trial was fixe,d to take place tilisx-norpipg. Y 1 ~';' ~, ~~ r